Exactly as it says on the tin!
Coinciding with Pride Month, we're tackling LGBTQ+ SF, which focuses on themes of alienation, equality, love, the concept of masculinity and femininity, and so much more!
Keeping with our tradition of recommending new stories, this time we thought about showcasing some of the amazing LGBTQ+ stories and the writers on Wattpad, too. After all, the Wattpad community is all about inclusiveness, right?
Here we go:
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@EveryNextDream's Car Thieves is a post-apocalyptic road movie kind of novella. Set in the aftermath of a global pandemic, the cast includes an aro-ace woman, a bi guy, a gay guy, and a non-binary person.
College student Emily Verde has some seriously weird dreams. Although she doesn't know it yet, she's accessing alternate realities in her sleep. After surviving cancer, losing her mother and moving halfway around the world, Em doesn't think of herself as a survivor, but she is one. And she needs to be to face what's coming.
A magical encounter with a yoga instructor at her local gym leads Em to make a life-altering trip. She travels to India with her gay best friend, her college crush and her regimented roommate, making new friends along the way and a few enemies too.
The barriers between parallel dimensions are about to break down and Em must master her newfound abilities quickly, not just to save herself and those she loves, but to protect the fabric of reality and fulfill her destiny.
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Seth is a quiet guy who stays out of trouble, but trouble seems to have a way of following him as soon as he gets involved with a very attractive immortal.
Although he never wanted any of it, when Seth runs into a genderfluid god, he is taken on a whirlwind adventure that will change his life forever. Beyond having to accept the parallel magical community that exists alongside the world he grew up in, Seth must face angry angels and gods while journeying around the world with his new friend...or lover.
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After filing his company for bankruptcy, Kyle's wife leaves him and his three-year-old son. Now a forty-two-year-old divorcee with no parenting skills or money, Kyle decides to move back to the small home town he grew up in.
He should have lost all hope in love and romance, but there's something about Chaska, his son's preschool teacher, that just makes him feel like a college student in love again.
Challenge #7: Inline comment with a link to your own favourite LGBTQ+ SF book or story found on Wattpad!
